one side has been represented by the glen beck wing of the conservative movement. mr.ould like to sell you a 1971 bill of rights cap in case your ears get cold and he would sell you some bill of rights jeans. glen beck would definitely like to sell you on the idea this net neutrality thing, whatever that is, that will definitely obviously, be the socialist end of the world. >> this is truly about control. when you look at what they've tried to do, they tried to take away your guns they're trying to take away your voice. they need control of the internet. if the government takes control of the internet you will not be able to chart your own course online either. that leaves us exactly where? >> they're taking away your guns and making you use a memograph machine. i'll meet you in the bunker. they voted three to two for net neutrality. to the extent he was making a political argument he lost the political argument. how do we understand who won, and what do they get for a prize? for the people who have been activists on this issue for years while the rest of us have been

glen beck called the president a racist with a deep-seated hatred of white people.trump's birtherism took hold and socialism uttered increasingly. ann coulter called our sitting president a retard. sarah palin mocked his shuck and jive stick and john sununu questioned colin powell's weighty endorsement as being motivated by race. there's been a prairie fire of falsehoods spread throughout the internet suggesting among other things that obama is a muslim or that he refused to cite the pledge of allegiance paving the way for the fictionalized documentary 2016 which characterized obama as fulfilling the anti-colonial agenda of his father. a man he literally knew for just one weekend. among the usual means used to undermine the president is the threat of an apocalyptic cataclysm usually in the form of power like the seizing of guns. these demand unthinking acceptance of the notion that the president, like some bizarre man churen candidate is executing a nefarious agenda. before i made the move to sirius xm radio i routinely fielded calls from a.m. listeners with no hint

later glen beck called the president a racist with a deep-seated hatred of white people.hism took hold. just before hurricane sandy hit ann coulter called our sitting president a retard. sarah palin mocked his shuck and jive stick. and john sununu openly questioned colin powell's weighty endorsement as being motivated by race. there's been a prairie fire of falsehoods spread throughout the internet suggesting among other things, that obama is a muslim or that he refused to rekite the pledge of allegiance paving the way for the fictionalized documentary in 2015. among the usual misdemeanoremes used to undermine the president is usually in the form of an assertion of federal power, like the seizing of guns. these predictions demand unthinking acceptance of the notion that the president, like some bizarre manchurian candidate, is executing a nefarious agenda. before i made the move the sirius xm radio, i routinely fielded calls from a.m. listeners who, with no hint of embarrassment in their voices said things like i call him comrade or he's not my president. their best evide

glen beck has made the same decision. he has a smaller cable channel called "the blaze."hese pictures. he said it's because it's quote, time to wake up recognize what we're up against, look it square in the eye and call it evil. >> beheading is not brutal enough? >> right. that gets to it. and i think there's a point that a news editorial decision turns into a political decision. that's an interesting issue about this as well. what we've heard a lot on the right from conservatives who say that people like president obama are denying the reality of islamic terrorism. people like president obama aren't willing to look it square in the eye and see it for what it is. we've heard that political argument. i think at times these news editorial judgments are turning into political judgments as well. >> i hope that's not true but i have a sneaking suspicious it is. brian stelter, thanks so much for the interesting conversation. i appreciate it. >> thanks. >>> still to come in the "newsroom," ashton carter heads to capitol hill as hearings to confirm him as the next secretary of na

glen beck is doing it. somewhere around 300 to 400,000 paying subscribers a month at $10 a month.e math, 35, $40 million. rich greenfield, a respected analyst, thinks he gets to $100 million a year in revenue for that business. jon stewart is probably other than lorne michaels, probably the most important figure in satire and comedy. think about the people he has helped launch their careers. stephen colbert, steven karel, larry willmore, michael j, olivia mun. if i'm jon stewart and he wants to take time off, because i don't think this was about money at viacom f i was viacom i would back the truck up, if he goes direct to consumers and think of it in this context, 50 cents a day to watch jon stewart's network, 50 cents a day, half the price of "the new york post," that -- and he does it four days a week, $8 a month for subscribers, get a million subscribers, that's almost $100 million a year in subscriber fees not to mention advertising, commerce things he could create. this is a franchise. this is a man who could create the next generation of a viacom or time warner period. >> y